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Retrospective: Live Code Streaming 1

Yesterday I streamed for some minutes while starting the process for building an application which consumes the twitter API.

I’ve not used the tiwtter API before, and I’ve not consumed any APIs from Python… the point is to demonstrate how to learn something new on the run, and how straightforward or not things may turn out.

Up to now, I’ve found out that app.twitter.com is where you register the application, and I chose tweepy as an SDK.

I read on some of the documentation for the proper application behavior, such as the backoff protocol and their unique HTTP 420 error.

Reading on-screen is awkward, I’ve tried to make it lively by commenting on the content and pointing out what calls my attention. As it turns out that reading documentation and exploring is a part of development, I don’t want to hide it from the viewers. There are already a ton of streamers who use their known tools to work on straightforward problems… I hope to enhance the experience bringing to the table something I’ve not yet seen.

As I announced some time ago, this stream is scheduled for Wednesdays at 8:00PM, UTC-4. Next time I’ll have the needed parameters to authenticate to the twitter API and will go on from there, without showing the actual secret values.

If you’re not very experienced and have Spanish as your mother language, I recommend you join the stream and the chat, where we can discuss the information and implementation.